More details emerge about Race to the Top 2.0

04-13-2011

Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week

There were many, many losers in the fiscal year 2011 budget deal now working its way through Congress, but Race to the Top was a winner, getting $700 million for a one-year extension of the economic-stimulus program, which was to expire. That's less than half the $1.35 billion the administration initially wanted, but given how few programs came out on top, Race to the Top fans should be pretty pleased. There's a priority for early learning included in this new version of Race to the Top, which sounded to me like a way to help finance some of the activities that would have been paid for out of the Early Learning Challenge Fund, a $350 million proposal to help states improve their early childhood programs. The proposal is part of President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget proposal, but didn't make the cut in the final fiscal 2011 bill. (more...)

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